TSP On This Day

Empire Magazine has posted images of their upcoming X-Men 3 special covers. [via SciFi Brain] Ving Rhames will co-star in the Aquaman premiere playing McCaffery, a lighthouse keeper who serves as mentor to series lead character, A.C. Curry. Editor David G. Hartwell has won the Skylark Award. He's in good company. [via Robert J. Sawyer] Teachers' Top 100 Books by Continue Reading →

Jay @ Kill The Goat hates science fiction, as evidenced by her recent rant Why Science Fiction Sucks the Big One. Jay's main complaint is that science fiction writers lack imagination....science-fiction writers appear to be even less able to imagine the future than the average cat. In the eighteenth century, science fiction consisted of: we travel to places quite quickly Continue Reading →

There's a new collection on the horizon. The Change: Tales of Downfall and Rebirth is a set of stories set in the world of S.M. Stirling's Emberverse/Change series, a post-apocalyptic alternate history after some mysterious event has caused electricity, guns, explosives, internal combustion engines, and steam power to stop working. This book series has been on my to-read list for Continue Reading →

The Nebula-nominated novella Breathmoss by Ian R. Macleod is available online for your perusal. I just read it as part of the sf anthology The Year's Best Science Fiction #20. I don't know what it is about me and critically acclaimed sf (like Little, Big and The Left Hand of Darkness), but we just don't get along. I did not Continue Reading →

We SciFi fans know what we love, and we love Firefly. Firefly, the short-lived, much obsessed about, canceled-before-it-had-a-chance television show, is still very much on the minds of fans and, oddly enough, the actors who were involved in the show. The Science Channel has picked up Firefly for broadcast, the first time since 2008 that the show has been on Continue Reading →